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Our Betters is a 1933 American pre-Code satirical comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Constance Bennett, Anita Louise and Gilbert Roland.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: Alan Mowbray, Anita Louise, Aristocracy, Art director, Bernhard Kaun, Charles Rosher, Charles Starrett, Cinematography, Comedy film, Constance Bennett, David O. Selznick, Elsa Maxwell, George Cukor, Gilbert Roland, Gossip columnist, Grant Mitchell (actor), Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Hattie Carnegie, Hugh Sinclair (actor), Jack Kitchin, Jane Murfin, May Beatty, Minor Watson, Mordaunt Hall, New York City, Our Betters (play), Phoebe Foster, Pre-Code Hollywood, Radio City Music Hall, RKO Pictures, Roy Webb, Tango, The New York Times, Tommy Atkins (director), Tyrell Davis, Upper class, Van Nest Polglase, Violet Kemble-Cooper, W. Somerset Maugham.

  2. 1930s satirical films
  3. Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham
  4. Films produced by David O. Selznick
  5. Films with screenplays by Jane Murfin

Alan Mowbray

Alan Mowbray MM (born Alfred Ernest Allen; 18 August 1896 – 25 March 1969) was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.

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Anita Louise

Anita Louise (born Anita Louise Fremault; January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film and television actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), and The Little Princess (1939).

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Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.

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Art director

Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.

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Bernhard Kaun

Bernhard Kaun (5 April 1899 – 3 January 1980) was an American composer and orchestrator.

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Charles Rosher

Charles G. Rosher, A.S.C. (17 November 1885 – 15 January 1974) was an English-born cinematographer who worked from the early days of silent films through the 1950s.

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Charles Starrett

Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid westerns.

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Cinematography

Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.

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Comedy film

Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.

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Constance Bennett

Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.

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David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick (born David Selznick: May 10, 1902June 22, 1965) was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Elsa Maxwell

Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day.

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George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer.

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Gilbert Roland

Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994), known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s.

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Gossip columnist

A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially in a gossip magazine.

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Grant Mitchell (actor)

John Grant Mitchell Jr. (June 17, 1874 – May 1, 1957) was an American actor.

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Harry Wagstaff Gribble

Harry Wagstaff Gribble (March 27, 1896 – January 28, 1981) was an English-American author, stage director, screenwriter and playwright.

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Hattie Carnegie

Hattie Carnegie (March 15, 1886 – February 22, 1956) was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Hugh Sinclair (actor)

Hugh Sinclair (19 May 1903 – 29 December 1962) was a British actor.

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Jack Kitchin

Jack Kitchin (1901–1983) was a British film editor and producer.

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Jane Murfin

Jane Murfin, née Macklem (October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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May Beatty

May Beatty (4 June 1880–1 April 1945) was a New Zealand singer and stage and screen actress.

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Minor Watson

Minor Watson (December 22, 1889 – July 28, 1965) was a prominent character actor.

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Mordaunt Hall

Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973) was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for The New York Times, working from October 1924 to September 1934.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Our Betters (play)

Our Betters is a comedy play by the British writer Somerset Maugham.

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Phoebe Foster

Phoebe Foster (born Angeline Egar; July 9, 1896 – June 1975) was an American theater and film actress.

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Pre-Code Hollywood

Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934.

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Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. Our Betters and RKO Pictures are RKO Pictures films.

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Roy Webb

Royden Denslow Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer.

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Tango

Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tommy Atkins (director)

Tommy Atkins (July 18, 1887 –June 18, 1968) was an American director of the silent and early sound film eras.

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Tyrell Davis

Tyrell Davis (1902–1970) was a British film actor, Cambridge educated, who appeared on the West End and Broadway stage, as well as in British and American films.

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Upper class

Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power.

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Van Nest Polglase

Van Nest Polglase (August 25, 1898 – December 20, 1968) was an American art director.

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Violet Kemble-Cooper

Violet Kemble-Cooper (12 December 1886 – 17 August 1961) was an English-American actress who appeared on stage and in Hollywood film.

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.

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See also

1930s satirical films

Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham

Films produced by David O. Selznick

Films with screenplays by Jane Murfin

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Betters